By Voice of America |Henry Ridgwell | 15 Jul 2014
Last week's seizure of two large oil fields in Kirkuk by Kurdish fighters from northern Iraq will help their largely autonomous region achieve energy More...

By ANNE BARNARD, MICHAEL R. GORDON and JODI RUDOREN , New York Times, Published: May 4, 2013
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A series of powerful explosions rocked the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday morning, which More...

Martin Fletcher
Published at 12:01AM, April 16 2013
TheTimes.co.uk
Reem never imagined that she would one day flee her country. Now she wonders if she will ever see her family again
Let us call her Reem. If More...

Why did the bodies of 110 men suddenly wash up in the river running through Aleppo city six weeks ago? A Guardian investigation found out.
Martin Chulov with photographs and video by Ben Solomon and Noah Payne-Frank , The More...

Abu Ali Sulaibi was one of the first people to take up arms in Aleppo. Now he controls two shattered blocks on the frontline where he lives with his wife, four children and Squirrel the cat
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in More...